Chords
The Night They Drove Old And Dixie Down

Key: C

Introduction:

 Am                           Am7/G                             F         F/E           Dm 
Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train,
 Am                           Am7/G                             F         F/E           Dm 
'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.
 C                                 F                       C                             Dm 
In the winter of '65, We were hungry, just barely alive.
 C                                 F                             C                             Dm                                   D 
By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, ohso well,
 C                             F                                 C                                         F 
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells wereringing,
 C                             F                                 C                                         F 
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the people weresingin',
 C                                               Am 
They went La, La, La, La, La, La,
 G                                     F 
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La
 Am                           Am7/G                             F         F/E           Dm 
Back with my wife in Tennessee, When one day she called to me,
 Am                           Am7/G                         F         F/E           Dm 
"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!"
 C                                           F 
Now I don't mind choppin' wood,
 C                                             Dm 
and I don't care if the money's no good.
 C                                                   F 
Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest,
 C                                                   Dm                               D 
But they should never have taken the very best.
 C                             F                                 C                                         F 
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells wereringing,
 C                             F                                 C                                         F 
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the people weresingin',
 C                                               Am 
They went La, La, La, La, La, La,
 G                                     F 
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La

                                   C   F   C   Dm     D 
Solo Da Guitarra: Refrão
 Am               Am7/G                     F       F/E         Dm 
Like my father before me, I will work the land,
 Am               Am7/G                     F       F/E         Dm 
Like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand.
 C                                                       F 
He was just eighteen, proud and brave,
 C                                       Dm 
But a Yankee laid him in his grave,
 C                                           F 
I swear by the mud below my feet,
 C                                                         Dm                                   D 
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat.
 C                             F                                 C                                         F 
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells wereringing,
 C                             F                                 C                                         F 
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the people weresingin',
 C                                               Am 
They went La, La, La, La, La, La,
 G                                     F 
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La

 C                             F                                 C                                         F 
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells wereringing,
 C                             F                                 C                                         F 
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the people weresingin',
 C                                               Am 
They went La, La, La, La, La, La,
 G                                     F 
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La.